Frederick Jay "Rick" Rubin (born March 10, 1963) is an American record producer, co-founder of Def Jam Recordings, founder of American Recordings, and former co-president of Columbia Records. He is a nine-time GRAMMY-winning producer and author of The Creative Act: A Way of Being (Penguin Random House, 432 pages). He lives part time with his family in Tuscany, Italy.

Maurice Walsh was an Irish novelist, now best known for his short story "The Quiet Man", later made into the Oscar-winning film The Quiet Man, directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara.

Laura Lynne Jackson is an international speaker, teacher, and psychic medium certified with the Windbridge Research Center and the Forever Family Foundation. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe and The Light Between Us. She lives on Long Island with her husband and their three children.

William McGuire Bryson is an American journalist and author who was naturalized as a British citizen in 2014.

Jerome David Salinger was an American author best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye.